Loaner Kit

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Prehistoric Tool Kit Inventory

Fire Making Packet includes:

1 - Bow (made of buffalo rib, but usually wood)

1 - Bearing block (to protect the hand)

1 - Hearth-board

1 - Spindle

1 - Piece of leather to catch char

Hunting Packet (not in packet) includes:

1 - Throwing Sticks (Atlatls)

2 -  Darts

1 -  Arrow

Projectile Point Packet includes:

4 - Samples of unworked flint

2 - Arrowheads

8 - Spear or knife points

1 - Activity sheet taken from the book: “More than Moccasins” by Laurie Carlson

Sewing Packet includes:

2 - Leather scraps

1 - Bone handled obsidian knife

2 - Deer antler tine / bone awls        

1 - Dried Sinew

 2 - Bone needles

 2 - Patterns taken from the book: “More Than Moccasins” by Laurie Carlson

Drill Packet includes:

4 - Shale drilling stones

4 - Gourd pieces (one is an example)

3 - Hafted flint drills

Games Packet includes:

2 - Pokean “birdies”

4 - Pin and Target (stick and leather)

2 - Sets of four Kainsish sticks

3 - Activity sheets taken from the book: “More Than Moccasins” by Laurie Carlson

Created October 7, 2011